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Tristram Hunt Labour MP stands down



Garry Nelson's teacher

Well-known member
May 11, 2015
5,257
Bloody Worthing!
He's leaving to become head honcho at the V&A Museum. Rat leave sinking ship? Careerist letting his party down? Principled Labour man registering no confidence in Corbyn/direction of the party? I'm not sure how much a by-election costs but I'd be tempted to give him the bill.
 




Parachuted by Blair into a seat he had no connection with, easy come easy go - good riddance to the elitist snob last seen telling the Oxbridge 1% they had to take charge of everything
 


deletebeepbeepbeep

Well-known member
May 12, 2009
20,889
Parachuted into a labour safe seat and eroded support because he has no connections with the local area. As long as Labour put in a local candidate and not some uppity twunt called Tristram they might be able to hold it but certainly not a forgone conclusion.
 






Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
30,521
Tristram. Son of a baron. Oxbridge. Kids named Margot and Digby. Just what THE FVCK was he doing as MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central?!?
 


Garry Nelson's teacher

Well-known member
May 11, 2015
5,257
Bloody Worthing!
Parachuted by Blair into a seat he had no connection with, easy come easy go - good riddance to the elitist snob last seen telling the Oxbridge 1% they had to take charge of everything

Having lived in Stoke I can hardly imagine a greater contrast - Stoke and the V&A. I don't think there would be any prizes for guessing which of the two he feels more at home with!
 






beorhthelm

A. Virgo, Football Genius
Jul 21, 2003
35,265
clearly has no future in the Labour movement, so why hang around?

problem for Labour is they need some people like him to give them perspective, just as Conservatives need teachers and nurses to help theirs.
 




Common as Mook

Not Posh as Fook
Jul 26, 2004
5,627
He's leaving to become head honcho at the V&A Museum. Rat leave sinking ship? Careerist letting his party down? Principled Labour man registering no confidence in Corbyn/direction of the party? I'm not sure how much a by-election costs but I'd be tempted to give him the bill.

Man applies for what he believes to be a better job. Man gets offered job. Man resigns from current job to take new job. Happens every single day.
 
















It is a remarkable moment of self-awareness when a Blairite voluntarily puts himself in a museum
 


Two Professors

Two Mad Professors
Jul 13, 2009
7,617
Multicultural Brum
If UKIP don't win this,they should punch themselves in the face!
 






n1 gull

Well-known member
Jul 25, 2003
4,638
Hurstpierpoint
Man applies for what he believes to be a better job. Man gets offered job. Man resigns from current job to take new job. Happens every single day.

Incorrect its called Public Service, that's why they get big pensions, honours etc.. It also costs us tax payers money to hold a bloody election. Nice one Tristam you absolute Hunt
 



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